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The federal government’s foremost consumer protection agency has an “unequivocal basis” to start investigating the transgender medicine industry after a workshop highlighting stakeholders’ horror stories, Mark Meador of the Federal Trade Commission told The Daily Signal. The FTC hosted a daylong workshop on Wednesday called “The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care for Minors” to hear from parents and…
Imam Ayman Soliman, formerly a chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital with suspected ties to a terror watchlist, has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported such news on Wednesday, though it left out some crucial details. The original headline and a post shared over X failed to mention that Soliman…
A former Houston official faced harsh criticism over her comments about victims who died in a Texas flood over Independence Day weekend. Sade Perkins, a former Houston official appointed by the late Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, posted a video on social media criticizing the response to campers’ deaths at Camp Mystic. At least 27 campers…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that he wants the state Legislature to redraw its congressional districts—a move that could help save Republicans’ House majority in 2026. Abbott released a legislative agenda for a special session of the state Legislature set to begin July 21. In addition to asking the Legislature to respond to the…
North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, in an interview released Wednesday, threatened to vote down any of President Donald Trump’s nominees if they excuse the actions of Jan. 6, 2021, demonstrators at the Capitol. “The president should know if there’s anyone coming up for a nomination through any committee of my jurisdiction that excused Jan….
Just three years after the left-wing “defund the police” movement swept across the United States, the FBI reports, only about 58% of murders and nonnegligent manslaughters were cleared by the police in 2023 in the United States. The clearance rate is the total number of arrests or exceptional clearances made for a given crime in…
The Secret Service is “totally accountable” for the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, of now-President Donald Trump, the agency’s deputy director told CBS News. “Secret Service is totally accountable for Butler,” Matt Quinn said. “Butler was an operational failure and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again.” The Secret Service suspended…
Democrats “missed on the issue of immigration,” John Kerry says he told President Joe Biden. His party “allowed the border to continue to be sieged,” Kerry, who served as secretary of state under President Barack Obama, said Thursday during an interview with BBC. Kerry was the Democratic Party presidential nominee in 2004 and said all presidents…
Police arrested a Florida woman outside of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on Monday after she told Secret Service agents she had an “urgent message” for the president, the Palm Beach Post reported. Caroline Shaw, 49, of Orlando, had a handgun in her gray Mercedes van, which was taken during her arrest. She told officers…
Devastating floods over the Independence Day weekend caused widespread damage throughout the Texas Hill Country, prompting an extensive volunteer relief response from several faith-based and community organizations. At least 111 people died in the floods, including more than two dozen campers and counselors from Camp Mystic in Kerr County. Search and rescue operations continue as…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The U.S. Agency for International Development shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan, China, over the course of a 10-year program, even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in place, according to previously unreported documents. The documents show that USAID funded the exportation of 11,000 samples from Yunnan Province,…
Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland’s sole Republican congressman, is calling for the end to an offshore windmill project that would industrialize the state’s scenic Eastern Shore, a conservative region that depends on tourism and fisheries. Harris has long railed against the project, having represented the 1st Congressional District since 2011. He told The Daily Signal that…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced sanctions on United Nations special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Rubio cited “her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt [International Criminal Court] action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives,” in the announcement of the sanctions. The position of special rapporteur is appointed by the U.N….
Conservative pundits have been highly critical of the Trump administration and Attorney General Pam Bondi, specifically, regarding their conclusions about the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case and Epstein’s ultimate suicide. After years of speculation that the government was withholding information about the disgraced financier, his “client list” of powerful people across the world to whom…
President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are at a fork in the road as they decide on how to proceed with regard to a Ukraine-Russia war that appears to have no end in sight. President Donald Trump on Tuesday was questioned on reports that arms shipments from the Department of Defense to Ukraine had…
Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat nominee to be the next mayor of New York City, is moderating his rhetoric on the police. Mamdani, who once called for the New York Police Department to be defunded and dismantled, and referred to the NYPD as “wicked & corrupt,” has taken a decidedly different tone in recent weeks. During…
Former White House physician Kevin O’Connor pleaded the Fifth Amendment multiple times during his closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., subpoenaed O’Connor to testify regarding his alleged involvement in covering up former President Joe Biden’s health and the use of a presidential autopen while in office. The expected hourlong…
Doctors who pitched irreversible surgeries and sterilizing hormone regimens to minors struggling with gender dysphoria may have illegally deceived patients and their parents, according to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson. The statute that created the Federal Trade Commission authorizes it to prevent “unfair or deceptive” practices affecting consumers. The FTC hosted a daylong workshop…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Indiana is forging ahead in its efforts to dump diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in state government. Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, after signing a January executive order banning DEI programs from state agencies, released a report on Wednesday with a list of over 350 instances of DEI policies, programs, and hiring…
A new report shows a 50% decline in the number of law enforcement officers’ deaths in the line of duty since the start of 2025, compared with the same period last year. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund released its 2025 midyear fatalities report this week. The report found that 42 federal, state,…